Words of advice :
Its a great thing to have a presentable front door, but if its not unlocked you can't let opportunity in .
I was on a skateboarding adventure with my good pal MGR and the advice he gave me was really great , his father told him this and I'm glad he could pass it to me.
"until you are 30, these years are diamonds, don't burn them" and its true, when you are in these years your life is literally shaped around everything you do and i think its amazing how "if you work for it you can have it" is a saying we all shrug off. when realistically i am fortunate enough to be living in a positive light of this. Great work , great friends, great family, everyday .
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Beer is a lot like Hockey, when you are Young, your dad loves it and you don't understand why. But as i found myself driving my car down the street listening to am radio so i could catch the last period of the Montreal game, i realized you grow to love the taste, and you eventually find yourself in a play off rivalry that you cant get yourself out of. Also as im sure you notice with Beer and Hockey comes AM radio. we wont go there.
I decided to take a new way home from my friends house on thursday night. as i was listening to the game end on the radio, i decided to drive by the bell centre. not putting two and two together. (4 for those who are wondering ) It was a home game for the habs. so STUPID ME , i catch myself thinking "why are there 4 cops on every street intersection for blocks and blocks. " maybe because sometimes boston and montreal like to have riots ? or maybe because i was to into the game to realize that in about 2 minutes a tidal wave of people was about to come swarming down the street not caring about a single vehicle . RIDICULOUS.
And now that the weather is beautiful out (when its not snowing -ahem- )
At work we decided to start eating lunch outside in the sun since we don't have a lot of windows its great to be able to get some sunlight into your day. So today (friday - aka the day after the boston / montreal game ) we are outside enjoying our lunch innocently, and a "gentlemen" comes up and asks us in broken french (even though he was clearly french ) "avez vous use dollaire ? " (do you have a dollar)
we asked "what is it for"
the wonderfully presented man says over his giant gut " its for beer "
we reply with "sorry sir , not going to happen"
again he says " its for food ? " -at this point he's not even sure how he's going to get the dollar , he's asking statements . making me try not to laugh
Tim says "here have this banana i already ate my lunch"
*man takes banana* *stands there awkwardly inhaling banana*
(now at this point you have to understand that the conversation didn't happen as fast as you just read it here, this took like 10 minutes, it was slow and nothing less than awkward. and he is smoking a gigantic cigar in our area where we are TRYING to enjoy our lunch and some fresh air )
This Beautifully sculpted man then pulls up his sweatshirt to reveal a boston bruins shirt , when i say "uh oh, might not want to take off that hoodie around here "
when he asks "why is there a problem,? "
…long story short, we had no way of putting this time back into our day, it was just lost time.
at which point it got awkward and he was just lingering so Marco asked him nicely with his aggressive german accent "excuse me sir, can you please get your cigar the F*&& out of my face, im eating my lunch …. "
I was so proud of marco.
what can we pull from this story. there ARE boston fans in montreal, but they don't have jobs . go habs go
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Road trips on Rogue ships
The weekends .
so its been a couple weeks or so since my last blog.
Last weekend we went to vermont. we were hosted by a few skate friends that were really fun to hang out with. really happy to meet some new skaters and we skated some fun freeride spots. in retrospect. the fact that vermont is only 2 hours away and all i can see is amazing mountain passes. this adds a whole new awesome to the summer. enjoy this video i put together that sums up our skating.
In the states they have some crazy energy drink options . my advice : just avoid them. some rockstar flavours come with options like "with a straw" or "double the caffeine " … impressive. also . although the Canadian dollar is so good right now i learned quickly in stores this doesn't matter, and nobody has debit. still… yep so if you HAD to spend some canadian it was worth 80cents to them . just a tip (lesson learned) , take out some american money from your bank before going from now on :)
But once again i thank the awesome people who helped us have a good time in their great country :)
This weekend was BABC or Boarders Against Breast Cancer . where hosted on the third floor of a beautiful venue right downtown toronto, you could find me and about 200 other people drinking lots of beer to support the cause. The night was electric. 25$ entry and cheap beer all night. The Raffles seemed endless, i actually think there may have been more prizes than people. The amount of support from all the companies was absolutely incredible.
I will post a link for the pictures or videos once they are put together :)
So Primo Andrea Mia and Me all went and Primo won… well everything. We were impressed he won two of the raffles and took home a whollleee bunchh of awesome stuff! yay primo , free food and cookies and a giant pink couch.
there are just to many stories to tell about this night that if you want to hear more you'll have to call me. so much fun .
Saturday - Went for breakfast with Dustin in Barrie. really nice to sit down with him and chat for a bit i miss him and his wife. they are such great people.
At night (830) it was earth hour. so we unplugged all the .. well actually we unplugged everything in primes apartment and lit candles and proceeded to play jenga . thats right we played a game made of wood over candles.
not all bad though it was fun and only a few ended up with wax on them . oh and the beer.
Also special thanks to primo for putting up with us for a couple nights i miss this dude and our crazy adventures so its always fun to get to hang out.
Sunday - Brunch - My dad came and met me in toronto for brunch WHAT AN AMAZING morning :) couldn't ask for better. sat in a restaurant Dad Mia and I. No one else in the place except the waitress and the cook .
So big thanks to Him for coming so far :)
The board swap / Slide competition. This…. it went well. i sold ALOT of boards and gear for kebbek , ambitious , myself, and friends in QC . It was amazing seeing all my ontario skate friends again and it was even more great that we got to have a slide competition together . But it was even more fun ACTUALLY skating with them ! and when we skate, we skate hard. The slide competition was a blast. you can see how all your friends have progressed. for some , the winter is a time to snowboard or take time off from skateboarding. but for a lot of my friends . almost every single one of them went to California, BC , or some other much warmer country to get in some riding while we were all here freezing our… well knees off due to how much snow we had!
So proud of everyones riding this weekend keep up the awesome.
Special Thanks to Mia for putting up with me for a few days :) you rock ! :D and thanks again to primo for putting us all up for the couple nights!
So check out the video links i post and i will have some pictures up soon too!
VRMNT = http://vimeo.com/21643583
SLIDE SESH = http://vimeo.com/21651752 + http://vimeo.com/21607539
love you all ! (except you.. you know who you are lmao )
Kevin
so its been a couple weeks or so since my last blog.
Last weekend we went to vermont. we were hosted by a few skate friends that were really fun to hang out with. really happy to meet some new skaters and we skated some fun freeride spots. in retrospect. the fact that vermont is only 2 hours away and all i can see is amazing mountain passes. this adds a whole new awesome to the summer. enjoy this video i put together that sums up our skating.
In the states they have some crazy energy drink options . my advice : just avoid them. some rockstar flavours come with options like "with a straw" or "double the caffeine " … impressive. also . although the Canadian dollar is so good right now i learned quickly in stores this doesn't matter, and nobody has debit. still… yep so if you HAD to spend some canadian it was worth 80cents to them . just a tip (lesson learned) , take out some american money from your bank before going from now on :)
But once again i thank the awesome people who helped us have a good time in their great country :)
This weekend was BABC or Boarders Against Breast Cancer . where hosted on the third floor of a beautiful venue right downtown toronto, you could find me and about 200 other people drinking lots of beer to support the cause. The night was electric. 25$ entry and cheap beer all night. The Raffles seemed endless, i actually think there may have been more prizes than people. The amount of support from all the companies was absolutely incredible.
I will post a link for the pictures or videos once they are put together :)
So Primo Andrea Mia and Me all went and Primo won… well everything. We were impressed he won two of the raffles and took home a whollleee bunchh of awesome stuff! yay primo , free food and cookies and a giant pink couch.
there are just to many stories to tell about this night that if you want to hear more you'll have to call me. so much fun .
Saturday - Went for breakfast with Dustin in Barrie. really nice to sit down with him and chat for a bit i miss him and his wife. they are such great people.
At night (830) it was earth hour. so we unplugged all the .. well actually we unplugged everything in primes apartment and lit candles and proceeded to play jenga . thats right we played a game made of wood over candles.
not all bad though it was fun and only a few ended up with wax on them . oh and the beer.
Also special thanks to primo for putting up with us for a couple nights i miss this dude and our crazy adventures so its always fun to get to hang out.
Sunday - Brunch - My dad came and met me in toronto for brunch WHAT AN AMAZING morning :) couldn't ask for better. sat in a restaurant Dad Mia and I. No one else in the place except the waitress and the cook .
So big thanks to Him for coming so far :)
The board swap / Slide competition. This…. it went well. i sold ALOT of boards and gear for kebbek , ambitious , myself, and friends in QC . It was amazing seeing all my ontario skate friends again and it was even more great that we got to have a slide competition together . But it was even more fun ACTUALLY skating with them ! and when we skate, we skate hard. The slide competition was a blast. you can see how all your friends have progressed. for some , the winter is a time to snowboard or take time off from skateboarding. but for a lot of my friends . almost every single one of them went to California, BC , or some other much warmer country to get in some riding while we were all here freezing our… well knees off due to how much snow we had!
So proud of everyones riding this weekend keep up the awesome.
Special Thanks to Mia for putting up with me for a few days :) you rock ! :D and thanks again to primo for putting us all up for the couple nights!
So check out the video links i post and i will have some pictures up soon too!
VRMNT = http://vimeo.com/21643583
SLIDE SESH = http://vimeo.com/21651752 + http://vimeo.com/21607539
love you all ! (except you.. you know who you are lmao )
Kevin
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